skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The headline is defensible but, in my opinion, quite sensationalised.

How would you write the headline?

There's always a criticism of headlines, but headlines are necessarily short. It's like critics want the entire article text to appear in the headline, which is impossible.

I don't know what defensible but sensationalized is supposed to mean.

> I think a lot of the interactions people had with this submission, especially early on, were because the headline made them mad, rather than because of its contents.

That's pure speculation on your part, because the headline is very short and vague. In any case, it's not my fault if people read the headline but not the article. I want people to read the article, not just the headline.
I signed up to the paid account ($125 per month), added credit card details. Your system has me on free trial until early January.

I've followed all the steps required to unlock the "sorry to hear about the Bench situation" onboarding.

Now after jumping through all the hoops, I'm told that the "free onboarding" and call only happens after the payment is processed later in January.

Why wait?

It's difficult to vet your service without this assistance. Money aside, time is of the essence here.

Really hoping to be proven wrong here, but this feels like an opportunistic sales initiative that claims to be more, but is really just a "20% off for your first year" coupon code.
cough reader view cough
That appears to be from 2013 which is before the rule change that Carlsen is being hit with was made. AFAIK the change happened only a couple of years later.
Side note: beginner friendly or not, I've been using various kinds of shells for several decades and I still find Fish delightful. It's friendly to beginners, but also very comfortable to old salts.
You might have success with choc switches as they can be placed closer together than MX style switches.
Right now I don't think there's anything like this in the United States, at the very least. That said, virtually every bank here only seems to support SMS 2FA, which is also very frustrating.
I wonder how much of the people that are being upset about an option that recognizes landmarks and that is build in a privacy minded way are using chatGTP, windows, google or socials

The writer of the post admits that he doesn’t understand the very tech lite explanation of Apple nor read about Apple AI in general and the way it was setup. A lot of people are upset that (maybe, but unlikely) Apple knows that you made the 10 billionth photo of the Golden Gate Bridge. But continu using all sorts of services, living in sec camera heavy cities etc.

Not an apple fan but from all big tech corporations they have the least amount of interest in mining user data from a business perspective
They gave you a free web version. So if they want to try and do a subscription of charge $30 for a one off purchase I think that’s up to them. I’m curious if anyone will ever buy a subscription or spend $30 though.
> Remember this advertisement? "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone."

1. Take the biggest downside of your product

2. Advertise the opposite

3. Profit
Graphene mitigates the locked bootloader issue by only supporting one line of phones (Pixel), which have unlocked bootloaders.

A large amount of work has been put into making Graphene specifically work with banking apps. Mine does, for instance.
feels like clickbait
I suspect Germany is different. I see here work is much more word-of-mouth, and so I think LLM spam hasn't taken off, because most jobs are not much advertised as they are in the UK/USA. People are like "I know someone who can do that" and then a friend let's you know there's some work you could do.
Magnus left the competitive scene on his own terms years ago when he forfeited the world championship.
I've never had any issues running dumb USB loads off any of my MacBooks. Just tested it, no problem running 1.7 A of dumb resistors just soldered to the power pins with nothing on the data pins at all (not even the passive "apple charging" resistors) https://kalleboo.com/linked/usb-dummy-load.jpg

Macs will shut down a port if it goes over 2.4 A (IIRC) without USB-PD negotiation (mainly with the cable rather than the device).

But the USB standard says they should limit to 100 mA without USB 1.x negotiation, and it's not doing that.
I know that I am old-fashioned, but I find it slightly disturbing that there is this outstanding talk showing vulnerabilities of the German power grid, and on the other side they seem to encourage exactly this kind of attacks on the power infrastructure in the opening ceremony ( https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-opening-ceremony#t=1140 ).
I also live in Germany, and my experience is that while there might be a shortage, unless the CV experience from the last year reflects what HR is asking about, it doesn't matter, even you happened to do that lets say five years ago.

Oh, and better have those recommendation letters free of any negative stuff disguised as positive feedback.
> Thank you for posting the apple blog post.

The very same blog post is linked in the submitted article.
Isn't the suicide rate highest in Scandinavian countries and lowest in South Europe?
I think Ireland has banned single use vape devices, seems like Poland had a different issue
The percentage of the pie is smaller, but the pie has grown so much larger that in absolute numbers, there may not be any decrease.

> And also potentially shortsighted.

Looking at the recent releases, it feels like the vscode enshittification has already begun...
To give you feedback in your role as Apple's advocate:

"we had to sneak it out because people wouldn't consent if we told them" isn't the best of arguments
It took a decade, but the EU has finally achieved what no other major union of countries has done: mandating a single universal connector. As the world's largest single consumer market (500 million people), this decision sets a global standard, with the rest of the world following suit.

The delay was largely due to intense lobbying from manufacturers, especially Apple, which profited significantly from licensing their proprietary Lightning port.

Next up on the EU's list for 2026: Easily Changeable Batteries (you know, what every cell phone 20 years ago had before Apple).
Ploomber (YC W22) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers NYC/Remote US
is sqlite used for server side nowadays ? I've always thought this was highly not recommended.
A nuclear attack on NATO territory won't be sucked up.

Neither would be one on Ukraine.

And both sides know, that this has a high chance of escalating further.
Apple: Does backflips to protect your data

Apple's competition: Steals your data outright

Most of this thread: How could Apple act this way
Some people are able to do that subconsciously. If your not one of them you should probably learn some basics in how to read body language.

Then you should also apply some mirroring. I wouldnt overdo it with body language, but mirroring with spoken language can be quite powerful (and is more stealthy). Normally there are many different ways in our language to express an idea. Try to do it in a way that is natural to your counterpart.

Look at what you can infer from the appearance of the interviewer. Maybe you can also find out more about him before the interview. What generation does he belong to? Is he conservative/progressive/whatever? What programming languages is he familiar with? ...

Does he look rather old and conservative? - Maybe dont talk about your love for the newest tech hype. Put an emphasis on your good cs fundamentals.

Is he a Java programmer? - use the word interface

Is he a Haskell programmer? - use the word typeclass

Is he a nice guy? - try to be nice

Is he not a nice guy? - dont be too nice

etc...
An introduction to lockless algorithms in Linux
Thank you very much for this detailed article.

I never realised this is how floating point division can be implemented. Actually funny how I didn't realise that multiple integer division steps are required to implement floating point division :-)

In hindsight one could wonder why the unused parts of the lookup table were not filled with 2 and -2 in the first place.
Interesting that everyone in the prune thread thinks bird strike is not the likely cause, but something else
The blog post outlines how Apple goes about disconnecting metadata, so at best they would know that someone took a photo at a rough point in time.
Does anyone know of more examples of water simulations in WebGL? I’m looking for ways to implement waves with foam.

I love Evan’s Pool demo.
https://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/
> But there's a reason none of Google, Amazon, NVidia, Tesla, Meta, Netflix, etc. were built on mainframes zOS / COBOL / JCL / etc.

The main reason is that Linux is free of charge, and that Unix happened to be more used in academia. It has little to do with underlying technology.

> So saying "well Linux is just as complicated" would be actually quite stupid.

It is just as complicated, if you are looking at feature parity. Maybe there is less historical baggage but that comes with complications as well (think of the grumbles about systemd).
Kudos for shipping, but if you weren't aware, this can be done in a few lines with AutoHotkey[1].

AHK is a very powerful tool if you must use Windows. :)

BTW, you might want to add a license to the project. Otherwise it's technically not usable.

[1]: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v2/scripts/index.htm#EasyWin...
You're ignoring the part where it's opt-out.

We're way passed the point where things are accidently opt-out instead of opt-in, if you want to dig the point, it's something you should touch upon.
Indeed, that does not appear to exist. NuPhy Air75 HE is probably closest, but it's not split.

https://keeb-finder.com/keyboards?ms_layoutSize=75%25%2COthe...
that talk is being discussed on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535622
> Apple: Does backflips to protect your data

That's what their marketing says. I'm not sure how far you can actually trust that. They're an ad and media company as well.
Exactly. I have been running Linux on my personal computer for 15 years now. But frequently for work purposes and corporate jobs I have to work on Windows.
Are Calyx or Lineage worth a look? It’s a tough choice between the 3.
What other rules have been shelved after the date of it coming to effect have been announced?
We're Building
Respectfully over on r/anki I see maybe 3 or 4 posts a day about a new AI tool for Anki. It seems like people are reinventing the wheel more than they are using Anki...

However, this seems different.

> automatically improve cards you find challenging.

This is not something I have seen any of those other tools attempt to do yet :-)
As trivia, on mac os, the photoanalysisd service will run in the background and look through your photos, even if you never open Apple Photos. It can't be disabled unless you disable SIP (system integrity protection) which requires a complicated dance of reboots and warnings. It will reenable if you turn SIP back on.

It seems Apple are very passionate about analysing your photos for some reason, regardless if you yourself are.
I love SQLite, but some arguments in the article seems contradicting each other.

1. Massive Max DB size vs It can't handle the traffic: If it can't handle the high throughput it doesn't matter how big it can get, because you never get there, you can't do 1 insert/sec and leverage 281 TB storage capability

2. It's just for small projects vs It can't handle the traffic: so it is for small projects, right? I know there are multitude of different types of applications, but when mentioned MySQL/PostgreSQL at the beginning of the article, I thought we would be talking about web/backend related applications.

SQLite has a different mental model, it wants to be simple and close to the code, hence you can't easily setup multi node replication

On the other hand, other databases want to manage your data in isolation, hence they're deployed on a separate machine and have out of box data replication/sharding mechanisms
The upper class has been wearing expensive jeans for a very long time.
learning end games isn't also memorization?
It's being used in the German political discourse since at least the first term of the Schröder government in the late 1990es, which is about where I started following the news and politics more closely. It has been used cynically as justification for every thinkable cut into the social system ever since, from lobbying against a minimum wage to moving up the retirement age. You won't find many people, except for politicians and lobbyists, that'll still use the term unironically. It seems there are remarkable parallels on the other side of the Atlantic ocean.
no. but I do recommend running stuff like that in a DMZ. if you can get access to some of those farms in the Hinterlands, you'll get some proper compute, too but doin it via companies like open-I-AH or leClaude isn't a good idea because these fuckers are brain-damaged and can't be trusted.
BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective [video]
You can also ask germans directly here. I would tell you, many people take it serious, judging from HN comments, way more than americans, some just like to remain in their safe space bubble.
Just read the SPIEGEL article and I think it’s a pretty balanced report on the positions of both sides. Basically, it comes down to the assertion that you can’t reach a large number of electricity generation plants with “simple radio equipment”. That is the position of EFR, and sadly, the Bundesnetzagentur (the radio communications regulator in Germany).

I haven’t watched the talk yet but I think it’s pretty clear to all of us on this website, that sending a specific short radio transmission to a large area is not an insurmountable challenge for our favorite terrorist state.

What I don’t understand is why there is such a reluctance to admit that these problems exist and work towards fixing them. Instead we pull the Ostrich maneuver every time. One day it’s going to really bite us in the ass.

EDIT: after watching the talk, the funny thing is that all of the “business secrets” that EFR is accusing our fellow hackers of leaking, are actually mostly DIN standards. In other words, they are just upset that someone is talking about the fact that no efforts have been made to proactively secure these receivers. Peinlich.
Breaking NATO Radio Encryption [video]
That is not what happened. Carlsen refused to change on the same day because it was "a matter of principle" (his words) -- not because there was insufficient time to.
Yup. The prospect of having to someday switch to VSCode unnerves me. It's not because it's technologically inferior to Emacs or because of my habits, muscle memory, dogmas, or childhood traumas. It's because of Microsoft. I just can't blindly trust the good intentions of a mega-corporation. A behemoth that expends huge amount of resources constructing a modern code editor packed with numerous features that they then offer at no cost. When I used IntelliJ and paid for it, I understood precisely what I was buying, I understood their revenue model. Then I switched to Emacs - which is only theoretically free - as it cost a substantial amount of time, dedication, and energy. I still understand who benefits from my choice - the community, me, and the wider industry too. Every time I activate a VSCode instance, I'm unsure of the exact cost that I'm incurring. It already felt like a hostage situation when they took over GitHub. If everyone is now must become a VSCode user, I don't even understand how people don't realize how dystopian that is.
GangBang-Abstractions would be a good name. Abusive, damaging the respective micro-biome ( parts of the code/system ) almost irreversibly and passing around the data for brutal telemetric exploitation ...
The upper class has been wearing expensive jeans for a very long time.

The upper class doesn’t need dress code. They know they are the upper class. Dress codes are for petit bourgeois and the upper middle class who try to pretend but everyone knows they are actually middle class.
Standardized and widely available batteries would also be a huge step forward. Like the old nokia phone batteries that you could pick up anywhere.

Recently I started buying gadgets that have 18650 batteries, seems about the only standard around, but trying to buy the batteries has been a challenge. I even tried a couple European Amzn stores, but they only seem to have third party suppliers. It put me off from buying the MNT Reform even though I love the concept.

And the 18650 USB torch I bought has some stupid propriety magnetic connector on one end, so I'd say any such legislation should include both ends of these charger cables.
> Running a custom ROM locks you out of almost all decent phone hardware on the market since most have locked bootloaders

GrapheneOS only works on Pixel devices. Pixel devices are fine. We have reached a point where just about every mid-tier device is fine, really. I run my devices until they are FUBAR or can't be updated due to EOL. EOL for Android (and GrapheneOS) is ~7 years from the release date now.

> it locks you out of a ton of apps people rely on such as banking and money transfer apps.

These can be installed and isolated using work or user profiles in GrapheneOS. Also as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42538853 points out, a lot of work has been put into making Graphene work with banking apps[1].

> You must recognise that it's not a practical solution for most people.

Of course I do. We can act on two levels. We (as a society) can work for regulation and we (computery people) can take direct action by developing and using software and hardware that works in the user's interest. One does not exclude the other.

[1] https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...
We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure [video]
>It's called Syrup, a fully open-source and transparent alternative to Honey. My goal is to make a browser extension that’s honest, ethical, [...]

If you want to make this solution for yourself and other very technically-savvy users like the HN crowd to use and collaborate on, that's fine. However, despite your declared good intentions, I would never recommend a browser extension like this to non-technical friends and family.

It doesn't matter if the browser extension has an "open source" repo because the maintainer of it can change in the future and then the code is altered to have unethical behavior that doesn't align with the original intentions. Basically a variation of a software dependency "supply-chain" attack. Examples include the xz backdoor and the first uBlock repo being bought by an advertising company (eyeo GmbH). The innocent non-techie browser users will not be sophisticated enough to monitor a Github repo to see if has been compromised and therefore, their "honest" browser plugin no longer does what they think. For those users, it's best to just manually search for coupons with Google/Bing.

Example of how a browser plugin places a "cognitive burden" on non-technical users and just confuses them:

- Chris Aljoudi takes over uBlock and tricks users :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock_Origin

- https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/ija23v/if_you...

- https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/8uxcfv/ublock...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26161702

- https://www.google.com/search?q=xz+backdoor+github+commit
You're kidding yourself if you think apple is in the business of protecting your data beyond marketing itself as such. Just like all it's competition it's in the business of using your data like them.
Perhaps there are too many alarms in case of a bird strike in a modern airliner? "Hydraulic pressure LOW","Voltage in System B Out of SPEC", "Cabinets in the kitchen area Open", "and by the way,the landing gear is not down".

One would imagine there are psychology experts at Boeing and others who do nothing else all day ,but decide if one or the other alarm should be prioritised and at which volume (too low and they don't hear it, too loud and it disorients).

It is a complex subject. I think in time we realise removing the third crew member was an error.
Control of Cellular Differentiation Trajectories for Cancer Reversion
I must now point out how, paralleling this article, MoO 1 is known for its elegant simplicity compared to most of the game of the 4X genre it created / popularized.
Panic is understandable momentarily, but any professional pilot should be able to overcome that within a few seconds, and remember their training, which in an emergency is something like aviate, identify the problem if possible, and run checklists. Panic doesn't solve anything, and there's a comfort in having checklists and procedures to run. Something must have gone very wrong in training or with the plane for this to happen.

There's a standard short checklist for landing that includes flaps and landing gear. There may also be an emergency landing checklist that would also include those things.

The voice recorder and flight data recorder almost certainly survived. We'll know more after those have been recovered and analyzed.
Has anyone been saying the AI results aren’t beta or experimental? It’s been all over the place that I’ve seen.

But people used Gmail for a decade or so while it was beta too.

Do you expect them to wait until it’s perfect? Because that’s definitely not going to happen.
US had world’s largest economy well before WWII. It initially took first place in 1880 before going back and forth until 1900 when to firmly took the lead for a century. https://education.cfr.org/learn/reading/how-did-united-state...

It was a huge country with lots of natural resources like oil, gold, coal, etc.
Do you shut down the mini after use or put it in sleep mode?
> sorry to say but this could have been an optimistic post

> don't own any Apple device

So you don't have any skin in the game, but you're criticizing someone who does?

My blog post is written from the perspective of an Apple user whose trust has been violated. It's nice that you think—from a safe distance—the technology is neat, and maybe it is, but that's irrelevant to the main issue, which is the lack of user consent.
> LSP on emacs working well enough but the performance just isn't there.

Have you tried https://github.com/blahgeek/emacs-lsp-booster?
Also, build Emacs --with-native-comp flag
It's the same as the CSAM initiative. It doesn't matter what they say they send, you cannot trust them to send what they say they send or trust them not to change it in the future.

Anything that leaves my devices should do so with my opt-IN permission.
Most of those alarms would only be shown as text on the EICAS (Boeing) or ECAM (Airbus). Very few warning systems (the most important, like GPWS, TCAS, RAAS, the engine fire alarms, and the stall warning system) are aural and/or tactile in their annunciation.

EDIT: For a practical example, low hydraulic pressure in the left-hand system in a 777 would be yellow text on the EICAS that says "HYD SYS L".
Why not create a "navigation layer" where you can have your home/end/pup/pgdown and arrow keys, right below your fingers?

That's the usual way people use these smaller keyboards, and it's way superior in my opinion.
Isn’t that running locally on your Mac though?
Ask HN: What's the best thing you've watched this year?
Can be anything - podcasts, interviews, video essays, movies, series
I know it's a typo but this:

> what more could a shell?

Is quite good. It could almost be the tag line for fish shell.
Your quiet crusade should consist of refusing to read articles on Medium :(